Using render:pageUrl tag

Question

Good Day,
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I am using the <render:pageUrl> tag to render content in a page/portlet. Selecting a link constructed by the pageUrl tag the page renders OK but only once. I attempt to use the <render:pageUrl> several times to call the same page/portlet but the called page/portlet does not refresh with new content.
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The begin() action in the called jpf (Test_Data_Page) is only called once, after the first call it is not called by subsequent calls using the other constructed URLs.
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Each of the following URLs exist on a single portlet. I want to render different content based on the selected link. Help please?
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a href="<render:pageUrl pageLabel="Test_Data_Page">
<render:param name="test" value="test1" /></render:pageUrl>">test 1</a>
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a href="<render:pageUrl pageLabel="Test_Data_Page">
<render:param name="test" value="test2" /></render:pageUrl>">test 2</a>
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a href="<render:pageUrl pageLabel="Test_Data_Page">
<render:param name="test" value="test3" /></render:pageUrl>">test 3</a>
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Thank you,<br>
Everette

Answer 1

Thanks for the tips. I was using the same syntax as in the docs, but let me try
this one. Also, maximizing the portlet will not work, because even in the detailed
view, there are a couple other portlets that still need to be shown.
I also tried the syntax suggested below, but it always returns http://localhost:7001/myportal
as the url. Not sure what is going wrong.
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"George Murnock" <[email protected]> wrote:
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Another thing to consider instead of switching pages is to simply maximizing
the
news portlet when someone clicks a news item link. Maximizing will a)
make your
news portlet take up all the real estate on the page, and b) stop all
the other
portlets on the page from rendering. You can use the windowUrl tag (http://edocs.bea.com/workshop/docs81/doc/en/portal/taglib/www.bea.com/servers/portal/tags/netuix/render/windowUrl.html)
to do it.
Hope that helps,
George
"Khurram Zafar" <[email protected]> wrote:
Post your code snippet. How are you using render:pageUrl? And how are
you posting
a request parameter to be picked up by the target portal page??? Inthe
meantime,
try this approach, it works for us:
<render:param name="newsId"
value="123"/></render:pageUrl>">This is a News Heading</a>
Cheers
Khurram
"Cameron Rakaai" <[email protected]> wrote:
I am having problems using the render:pageURL tag. It seems to always
return null.
Any clues?
Basically, I have a portlet that shows news items. This page has several
other
portlets also. What I need to do is - when a user clicks on any news
item, I need
to show the detailed news item. I am open to ideas on how to do this
- the key
issue is that the detailed news items need more screen space - thusother
portlets
need to be hidden. I think the best solution is to call a new pagewhich
has a
portlet to handle the detailed news. So all I should have to do iscreate
a link
to this new page, and pass it the newsId. Thus I was using the render:pageURL,
but it seems to return null.
Ideas?
Thanks
Cameron